It’s not necessarily about the content being good or bad, it’s about preserving history. Think about all the lost films from the early 20th century; those are pieces of our cultural heritage we can't recover. It's super important for understanding our past! I get the universe joke but imagine if …

Alright, so if you have the YouTube metadata, we can work with that. Let's think about archiving websites like the Wayback Machine or archive.today. If the uploader’s channel was archived at some point, it could contain snapshots of the video list, and maybe advanced searches can reveal a thumbnail or …

This is my first time in the subreddit, but wow this theory is wild! Have there been any cases where something was thought lost and then suddenly 'found' in a vault or something?

Have you ever heard of the Jerry Lewis film ‘The Day the Clown Cried’? It’s a prime example of lost media – locked away because of sensitive content and Lewis’ own disdain for the project. It’s completely inaccessible, so no amount of ‘google harder’ is gonna unearth that!